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Rita Ora says she got 'hacked', but was it just a huge Twitter fail?

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Nov 3rd 2014, 11:05 AM 7,021 Views 2 Comments

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RITA ORA has been left a little red-faced (but she won’t admit it) after a failed attempt at drumming up publicity for her new music on Twitter.

On Friday, the singer/model/actress/rent-a-crowd tweeted that she would release new music today (November 3) if she got 100,000 retweets.

Which would make sense, considering she released the first single from her upcoming second album in January, with no follow up single or indication of the album release date since then.

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However the tweet was deleted hours later after it got only 2000 of the required 100,000 retweets, and Ora now claims she was ‘hacked’.

Which, as we all know, means “Let’s pretend I never said anything, OK?”

By the way my Twitter got hacked somebody is threatening to release new music I've worked really hard on. Nothing comes out until I'm ready.
— Rita Ora (@RitaOra) October 31, 2014

Source: Rita Ora/Twitter

Or the bots insist on it! When it's ready we will drop music! Luckily I caught the hacker really quickly and deleted the post. Thank you!!
— Rita Ora (@RitaOra) October 31, 2014

Source: Rita Ora/Twitter

‘Luckily’. Hmm. HMM.

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Rita Ora says she got 'hacked', but was it just a huge Twitter fail?